Economic Geography

A widely held (and sensible) view is that policy making should be based on evidence. But it often isn’t. This paper considers why this is the case for local government …

boundaries (in the long-term) to better match economic geography, reducing ‘natural’ variation in local authority … boundaries should be redrawn to better match economic geography.85 Such a realignment would better equip …

We analyze how expropriation risk reduces incentives for innovation and reallocates resources from the innovative sector, building on Romer’s(1990) model. Our framework predicts the R&D expenditure, the share of human …

performance in the regions of Europe. Journal of Economic Geography 15(4): 673-706. Romer, Paul (1990). Endogenous …

Territorial development theory and practice have witnessed significant change in recent times. This change has increasingly put the spatial dimension at the center of development policies. Although agglomeration-focused policies derived …

territorial development policy Early theories on economic geography viewed spa�al inequali�es as a temporary … human capital. Even the more recent New Economic Geography highlighted the value of enhancing connec�vity … emerging from the literature on evolu�onary economic geography—underscores that regions exhibit varying … Floerkemeier et al., 2021). The evolu�onary economic geography literature stresses the significance of regional … place- based policy evalua�on. Journal of Economic Geography, 17(1), 129-156. Annoni, P., & Dijkstra …

The Global Compact on Refugees recognizes the importance of responsibility sharing for hosting, protecting, and assisting refugees, while emphasizing the potential of economic participation to reduce the cost of humanitarian …

reason and as the World Development Report on Economic Geography makes clear (World Bank 2009), economic … 102606. 26 World Bank 2009. Reshaping Economic Geography. World Development Report 2009. World Bank …

Adapting to climate change is an increasingly urgent policy priority in lower- and middle-income countries. This systematic review summarizes the current state of the literature on adaptation to climate change, …

José-Luis, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. 2023. “The Economic Geography of Global Warming.” Review of Economic Studies … Economic Adaptation of Businesses.” Journal of Economic Geography 21 (4): 557–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaa020 …

The complex relationship between climate shocks, migration, and adaptation hampers a rigorous understanding of the heterogeneous mobility outcomes of farm households exposed to climate risk. To unpack this heterogeneity, the …

Insights from a multilevel analysis. Journal of Economic Geography, 22(2), 289-323. Boas, I., Farbotko, C. …

This paper provides a rationale on why investing in research and innovation (R&I) matters for Europe. It describes the potential of R&I to strengthen EU's competitiveness, support a green and …

performance in the regions of Europe. Journal of Economic Geography 15(4):673- 706. 28 World Economic Forum …

We estimate a bilateral gravity equation for emigration rates controlling for decadal weather averages of temperature, precipitation, droughts, and extreme precipitation in origin countries. Using the parameter estimates of the …

Cruz, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. 2021. “The Economic Geography of Global Warming.” Working Paper 28466 …

We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is determined by the set of schools available to its residents. This paper studies the extent to which …

recent advancements in quantitative models of economic geography, refer to Redding and Rossi-Hansberg (2017) …

Economists have long hypothesized that large and thick labor markets facilitate the matching between workers and firms. We use administrative data from the LEHD to compare the job search outcomes …

our understanding of key features of the economic geography of the United States and other industrialized …